Wilmington coup

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
revolutionary
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898
gptkbp:casualties estimated 60+ African Americans killed
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:1898_Memorial_Park
gptkbp:date November 10, 1898
gptkbp:followedBy disenfranchisement of African Americans in North Carolina
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Wilmington coup
gptkbp:location gptkb:Wilmington,_North_Carolina,_United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage gptkb:The_News_&_Observer
gptkbp:perpetrator gptkb:Democratic_Party_(North_Carolina,_1898)
white supremacists
gptkbp:precededBy white supremacist campaign of 1898
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkb:Reconstruction_era
gptkb:Red_Shirts_(paramilitary_group)
African American history
gptkbp:result overthrow of elected local government
establishment of white supremacist rule
expulsion of black leaders
massacre of African Americans
gptkbp:significance only successful coup d'état in United States history
marked beginning of Jim Crow era in North Carolina
gptkbp:target gptkb:Wilmington_city_government
African American citizens
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6